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Some parts of this album are very good and beautiful, like the nice acoustic "Willow Tears" and "Fading The Tears". These two are instrumental, and that's one of the reasons why I like them - because I don't like the singer's voice at all. It sounds partily exactly like Fish. If you had given me this album saying it was a Fish or early Marillion album I would've believed it. That sort of annoys me. Parts of the music are great, like most of the parts in "Alviss' Revenge". Others are quite awkward, too much of prog cliché kind of music. I mean things like 2nd half of "Eckol" or the luckily short "Mirth For A Guest". Song titles lke "The Song of Omniscient Dwarf" already show the very pathetic proggy kind of embarassing song lyrics...
There's beautiful parts in here, but also some that are really awful.

Nice alternative rock from America. This EP is downloadable for free on www.throwingmusic.com/freemusic/.

Excellent album by american folk singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt. Siting in a wheelchair (prog fans will be remember of Robert Wyatt) he makes the best out of it and sings and writes very good songs with intelligent lyrics.

The roots of ambient. I don't know why this album has got so bad ratings here, I love it!

This is an excellent album by Austrian born singer/songwriter
Pina, who lives in Ireland. Style of the album is folk
pop/rock, and there's many great songs like 'I Was Walking',
'On Such A Lovely Day' and very especially the great
'Butterfly', an amazing, beautiful ballad. In the second half
of the album, the music gets a bit of too much the same, while
the first half is very varied. I found a copy for only 5 sfr
(=4.5 US$ or 2 £) in a local store. You probably are able to
order this album via Peter Gabriel's Real World sublabel
'Prerecords'. Check the website.

Nice single. Smaskifa 1 is worth checking out, originally meant as a remix of Vaka, then turned out differently. Smaskifa 2 is not really interesting, Track 4 is nice, some ambient structures over and over again, hypnotizing. Vaka, opener of the ( ) album, of course is a great song. Nice single, but ony for fans, nothing to start with this great band.

I've heard this was the first Keith Jarrett solo concert since x years....I like it, really an outstanding performance!

Good album. Lyrics are a bit a shame; John M should write again...but the music is very good.
Highlights: Repentance, In The Presence Of Enemies
Lowlights: The Dark Eternal Night

Very good album. When Deadwing was more of a collection of songs, this is really one piece of music. Both albums are great, hard to say which one better.

This is a free download album, avaible at dgmlive.com. Though it is split into 3 tracks, it could easily be one. Very ambient, interesting atmosphere, but too much of the same to be interesting for a whole hour. Still, very strange, but interesting how Fripp uses his guitar.

i've won this album at a internet contest (proggies.ch -->
cool site, check out). Strange swedish music, this is actually
a duo consisting of drums/organ, though the organist also plays
some synths and there are many guest musicians that make the
album more interesting. A nice album - in German you'd say
"Einem geschenkten Gaul guckt man nicht ins Maul" - I wouldn't
have bought it, but as I got it for free, nice. ;)

I never had heard of this Scottish band before listening to the song 'A Life Worth Living', which fascinated me very much. Decided to buy this album, it was worth it. :) Very beautiful album in direction of new artrock.
Highlights: A Life Worth Living, Running Man, Living Backwards
Lowlights: none

Debut album of young british band Amplifier. Nice rock album, though I miss the keyboards (formation trio - guit/voc, bs, dr).
Highlights: UFO's, Airborne, Motorhead.
Lowlights: none. Even the bonus EP tracks are good - very good.

As I do not own the first album, I can't comparize the two albums, but this one here surely is very good. I wouldn't have thought that Aviv Geffen is such a good songwriter, my favourite of this album is a composition by him, 'End of the World'. Other Highlights include Christenings, Some Day, Once, Miss U... really a wonderful Artpop album.

Another highlight of islandic post rockers Sigur Rós. A beautiful winter album, sad, but beautiful.
Highlights: Popplagið, Vaka, Alafoss...
Lowlights: none

This album is - of course - no highlight in Pink Floyd's discography (there are enough anyway ;) ), but a nice soundtrack album with some classics and some filler pieces. Sometimes gets extremly rough for PF standards (i. e. Nile Song)
Highlights: Green Is The Colour (also live!), Cymbaline, Nile Song
Lowlights: no really bad songs, but Party Sequence and More Blues are sort of boring.

Sort of a compilation album, featuring songs from BJ newly, softer recorded, partily very cool versions, sometimes quite boring.

A album, very much focussed on lyrics and musical parodies (i.e. Doreen with the endless outro or contry parody Harder Than Your Husband)
first four songs IMO aren't that good, then the album gets better.
Highlights: YAWYI, Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, Heavenly Bank Account, Suicide Chump, Drafted Again.
Lowlights: Dumb All Over (very boring to listen to), Teenage Wind

One of the first albums I owned. Used to like it more (with 12 years ;) ), still quite nice, most of all the title song and Thru My Eyes. In the middle of the album, some bit weak tracks (it's not too late, this love this heart, driving me crazy). some extra nostalgic points ;)

A great concept album. I love this record, though: hard to
rate.